{"id":1485,"date":"2019-10-11T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2019-10-11T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:00:11","slug":"the-u-s-government-tried-to-shut-down-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=1485","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Government Tried To Shut Down Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billybambrough\/2019\/10\/08\/the-us-government-tried-to-shut-down-bitcoin\/#63f60a3c1966\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/litho\/e5cacc95587832a0d0d8b6383f4d1bdf1df6c26cb438ae890ed0cace8b61b1bd.png\" class=\"image-treated\" data-original=\"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/960x0.jpg\" data-treated=\"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/litho\/e5cacc95587832a0d0d8b6383f4d1bdf1df6c26cb438ae890ed0cace8b61b1bd.png\" \/><\/a>Bitcoin conspiracy theorists have long suspected the U.S. government, among others, would like to shut down bitcoin.Bitcoin&#8217;s first decade has seen its price explode, making early adopters overnight millionaires, and prompting some of the world&#8217;s biggest technology companies to create their own versions of bitcoin.Now, it&#8217;s been revealed federal prosecutor-turned bitcoin and cryptocurrency expert Katie Haun was asked to look into &#8220;shutting down&#8221; bitcoin by her boss at the U.S. attorney\u2019s office in 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billybambrough\/2019\/10\/08\/the-us-government-tried-to-shut-down-bitcoin\/\">The U.S. Government Tried To Shut Down Bitcoin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin conspiracy theorists have long suspected the U.S. government, among others, would like to shut down bitcoin.Bitcoin&#8217;s first decade has seen its price explode, making early adopters overnight millionaires, and prompting some of the world&#8217;s biggest technology companies to create their own versions of bitcoin.Now, it&#8217;s been revealed federal prosecutor-turned bitcoin and cryptocurrency expert Katie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,58,13,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}